Cooked?Bread Head
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 29, 2025 →
- address1518 Montana Ave, Santa Monica 90403
Is Bread Head clean?
Bread Head is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on July 29, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bread Head?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📦food stored wrong# 30. FOOD PROPERLY STORED; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
- ☠️toxic items stored near food# 25. PERSONAL CLEANLINESS AND HAIR RESTRAINTS
When was Bread Head last inspected?
Bread Head has 1 inspection on record going back to July 29, 2025, averaging 90 points.
July 29, 2025 A
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View full inspection →Bread Head vs City Of Santa Monica
City Of Santa Monica runs 95% clean across 628 tracked restaurants — 598 clean, 25 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 628 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Santa Monica, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
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How Los Angeles grades restaurants
Los Angeles County posts a letter placard in the window, and unlike New York the score runs the friendly way: higher is better. 90 to 100 points earns an A, 80 to 89 a B, and anything below that a C. The county inspects roughly every six months to a year depending on risk, and a failed inspection can close a kitchen until it is fixed. Because LA’s scores are final at the time of inspection — there is no pending window — a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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